There may very well be a difference, but any way you look at it that admin did violate copyright. One thing I did notice is this happened over a year ago, as such I'm not totally convinced now that revoking the bit will do much good.
Regardless I doubt there is much more to be said here, as there is a thread on this at WP:ANI or AN. I am not taking a part in the onwiki discussion as I think most of the valid views have been covered and it is time to move on. On 1/9/09, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > Wilhelm Schnotz wrote: >> Bah forgive me, I was trying to be sarcastic. Did not work so well :S >> > People here can sometimes be victims of their own literalism. One thing > about lynch mob members is that they believe they are ridding the world > of scum. Such true believers do not understand sarcasm. ;-) >> To ray, you have a point, if it is a 3rd parties copyright, it is >> their fight. Generally though I don't like the thought of that ability >> being used to undelete stuff that is not helpful to this project and >> creates these sorts of distractions, but it is now his fight. >> > There's still a difference between undeleting material and taking > deleted material for use on an external site. The Wall Street Journal > report is certainly a distractions, but volunteers who are driven by > their ideals to participate in the wikis tend to be more sensitive to > these distractions than is warranted. Large organizations are > frequently subject to these critical reports, and soon learn that making > a fuss of them is a waste of everybody's time. > > Ec >>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz wrote >>>> Feel free to start one or someone else is likely to do it. After all >>>> lynching gets good drama ;). >>>> > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
